CALL ME MAGGIE

November 24, 2015

Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz

pasaphae-pollock — Jackson Pollock, “Pasaphäe” (1943). Metropolitan Museum of Art. © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond does philosophizing return to World-Being. Only in this belonging in failure does philosophizing brave the cost of daring Transcendence. Only in this tension betwixt actuality and possibility do we obtain to the gesture of Existence. Elsewise, the easy phrase “I am responsible” intends nothing more than “I have taken shelter in my excuses.”

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

Categories: AnarchoCynicism, Art/Skill/Techne, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Whatever

Tags: aphorism, arts, authenticity, existenzphilosophie, failure, Mindfulness, philosophy, situatedness, The ENCOMPASSING, Transcendence, Transcendenz

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